Art, Books, New Releases Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger has been photographing the youth of Europe for more than fifty years and has created a body of work that is striking, sexy, totally bad-ass, and utterly iconic. Weinberger’s photographs of German and Swiss “Verlaustan” (literally,…
Books, New Releases, News If you happen to live in, or be visiting Berlin next week, you are cordially invited to the launch of the new book from All Gone, The Finest of Street Culture 2010. All Gone documents the most interesting and creative…
Books, New Releases, News The original Mod movement has been supposedly dead for 40 odd years, but Horst Friedrichs and Prestel Publishing gives it another injection of life in his photographic anthology, ‘I’m One – 21st Century Mods. Though it’s been a long time…
Books, Classic Releases, STD Did you have a sticker book as kid? A binder sized, not quite hard not quite soft, padding style covered book for all of the pretty photos, stickers, or other 2D playthings you collected? Maybe you still do? FriendsWithYou Have…
Books, Classic Releases, STD Documenting 20 years of commercial hip-hop photography, Hip Hop Immortals The Remix, published by Thunder’s Mouth Press, and written by Bonz Malone, is 360 pages of classic photos, excellent typography, clean design, and informative biographies. Adding 100 pages and onto…
Books, New Releases, STD The hip-hop generation is too often overshadowed by a dark cloud called rap music. This isn’t a complaint—rap has done many great things for a great amount of people—but hip-hop heads, purists, and enthusiasts, often complain, justifiably, that the rest…
Books, Classic Releases, STD Edited by Robert Klanten and Matthias Hubner, Dot Dot Dash—full title: Dot Dot Dash: Designer Toys, Action Figures And Character Art—is a massive hardcover exploration into the world of urban vinyl and plush. At over 250 pages, each approximately 9×12,…
Books, Classic Releases, STD Published in 2004 by Die Gestalten, Writing: Urban Calligraphy and Beyond is the definition of Format’s Classic Material. Featuring a sleek embedded cover, and high stock paper, the book is a work of art itself, designed for the reader who…
Books, New Releases, STD Over the past 40 years, graffiti has taken over trains, rooftops, mailboxes, phone booths and, most significantly according to the authors of Gates of Graffiti, doorways. Gates of Graffiti’s preface—one of the few text pages in the book—introduces “the door…
Books, New Releases, STD The Beat of Urban Art (HarperCollins Publishers, March 2007) is an intimate look into Justin Bua’s youth, art process and paintings. Bua’s drawings and painting are complex. His art digs into the birth of hip-hop culture and the characters that…
